State v. Leggs’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 2001
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Ashby · State v. Fletcher · State v. Adams · State v. Hartley · State v. Holland
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is our opinion that the need to deter violent, unlawful behavior by those individuals entrusted with the custodial control over others, especially those incapacitated by mental retardation, is obvious.”); see also State v. Lutry, 938 S.W.2d 431, 435 (Tenn. Crim.App.1996) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hooper
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.